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Chicago examiner vol vi no 122 a m tuesday may 12 1908 12 pages price one cent d^ga o^j hlae quits allies makes nomination of Taft appear to be certain maine senator induced by aldrich and crane to de sert the opposition no change for stampede fear of roosevelt's selection drives leaders into camp of ohio man washington may 11 the allied op position to secretary Taft is on the verge of collapse for some time senators aldrich and hale have been in the Taft camp recently they have been working hard to get sen ator w murray crane field marshal of the allies to join them it is reported to-night that senator crane has met these over tures in a manner which leads to the belief that he eventually will come over the combination in that event will mean the solid vote of new england for Taft on the first ballot and end the possibility for fur ther question as to the secretary's nomina the senators have been shaken up by the recent talk of a stampede for hoose velt there probably is only one repub lican in the country for whom they would not rather vote than Taft and that is roosevelt the lingering possibility that , the convenuon might be stampeded for the ; 1 president has convinced the senators that a their best move is to insure the nomina tion of Taft on the first ballot this possibility has been emphasized for them in the last few days by resolutions adopted at the utah convention for the election of delegates to Chicago and by the result of primaries in california the Taft strength in new engladd has been growing steadily and has been well recognized by senators from those states who have con | tinued their opposition when senator k crane decides to vote for Taft that means r all opposition in new england will cease and that Taft will have the solid eighty two votes from those states all prefer Taft to roosevelt in the entire group of dominant sena tors whom the president has classified as reactionaries there is not one who per sonally or politically prefers Taft to knox cannon or fairbanks but every one of tlem prefers Taft to roosevelt for weeks there have been reports that aldrich even tually would swing to Taft the rhode island delegation is nninstructcd and will be absolutely subservient to the wishes of aldrich the conversion of hale was a tedious process but it became apparent that maine would send a Taft delegation to Chicago his colleague senator fry was openly for Taft but it was not until the paners began to tell of the preference ex prewed for roosevelt in texas utah and california that aldrich and hale took off their coats for three days nobody in washington not even excepting hitch cock who works fourteen hours a day and can always lie found on duty at midnight has been bo active in behalf of Taft as aid rich and hale a stampede to roosevelt apparently was threatened and they began to organize to prevent it the president knew of their efforts and he secretly applauded their activity iu the president knew of their efforts and bis behalf is what he had hoped for and indeed planned for the president is in tensely practical as he himself admits he did not care what influences caused the reactionaries to get behind Taft just so they helped to give him the nomination he doesn't care how a stampede is pre vented just so it is prevented no chance of roosevelt stampede , under the circumstances a stampede â– > . v inch will nominate roosevelt now is out of she question it is apparent that for every vote which leaves Taft for roose velt two will leave the allies for Taft Taft will have more than 400 sure votes it is claimed which are his by binding in structions should a stampede be attempt ed there are enough votes controlled by the crnue-aldrieh-hale group to throw to Taft and make his nomination on the first ballot certain senator knox it is said does not snb m scribe to the idea that taft's nomination j is inevitable he still entertains the hope of himself being the nominee speaker cannon is holding out but rather than see roosevelt nominated he would throw the vote of the Illinois delegation to Taft for if there is one person in the wide world whom uncle joe does not want in the presidential chair it is theodore roosevelt from all sides in the camp of the allies to-night came denials of reports that sen ator crane had joined the new combination with aldrich hale and allison crane himself said there was no foundation for the story and representatives of knox and cannon made similar denials indications are however that the publi cation of the report is a little premature for the crane camp soul mate views oust professor when his wife finds poem to affinity h h bawden holding chair of philos ophy in university of cincin nati is asked to resign cincinnati 0 may 11 h heath bawden professor of philosophy at the university of cincinnati has been asked to tender bis resignation by president charles w dabney the demand was based npon the private views held by the instructor on the problem of sex and mar riage v professor bawden came to cincinnati year ago from vassar where he had been a member of the faculty for six years he admits that his radical views on mar riage and his democratic problems caused him to be dismissed from vassar professor bawden says that he believes in an ideal state in which there will exist an association based on comradeship in stead of the marriage tie professor bawden declares that he is going to fight the demand for his resigna tion and will submit his case in detail to the american public about two years ago a cloud appeared on the horizon of the bawden family on the horizon of tiie brawden family when an attractive young woman was en gaged as second assistant to professor bawden in his university work at vas sar mrs bawden found in a newspaper basket an original poem which she de clares was afterward admitted to be the work of her husband and in which a calm dispassionate love for the fair second assistant instructor iu philosophy was ex pressed by the writer recently mrs bawden went to dr dab ney the head of the university after a se ries of stormy interviews with her husband and laid the case before dr dabney professor and mrs bawden have apart ments in the auburn hotel on malvern place mount auburn but mrs bawden's rooms are in the main building while those of the professor are in the annex alice longworth places tack for man to sit on stout victim finds point enlivening dull session of congress washington d c may 11 mrs nicholas longworth who was alice roose velt drove her husband to the capitol to day in her electric runabout then she went up in the members gallery and sat down the proceedings on the floor were dull mrs longworth was plainly bored suddenly her eye lighted upon a tack upon the floor she picked it up and regarded it meditatively then as a smile spread over her face she leaned over the rail toward the men's gallery and carefully deposited it on a chair a few moments later a stout elderly man came in and seated himself ponderously upon the tack he rose like one of pain's best sky-rockets mrs longworth left the gallery almost im mediately and all the way down penn sylvania avenue it was noticed that her face wore a broad grin mayor arrested on charge of swearing albion mich executive out of jail on 100 bond battle creek mich may 11 mayor d m mcauliff of albion mich was ar rested charged with using profane lan guage in the presence of women and children in this city the mayor was ar raigned in justice court and is out of jail on a bond of 100 the date of his trial has been set for may 28 the mayor's trouble began when he boarded an inter urban car earring a byuggy wheel when the conductor tried to collect freight on the wheel an argument followed in which mc auliff was not careful in his use of words when he reached battle creek he was taken into custody hold as burglar a flirt traced by rare perfume popular stranger's gifts to women lead to his arrest madison wis may 11 - joseph holmes a stranger of a week's residence here who has become popular with several women has been arrested charged with robbing a drug store his arrest resulted from bis lavishing perfume upon the women with whom he flirted it was found that the free perfume was of the same peculiar scent as that of a big bottle stolen from the drug store the proprietor declares this odor is not duplicated in this state and is available not nearer than chi cago and minneapolis holmes denies his guilt but will not say where he got the supply of scent from which he gave so freely the examiner employment exchange places more applicants than any other medium in the city call and file your application to-day â€¢ armour in europe deluges Chicago pit with wheat weakens his may corner and sends price down to 1,00 3-4 fears federal action exact reason for message from abroad to let go is only surmised j ogden armour's corner in may wheat on the Chicago board of trade is weakened armour yesterday decided to let go to relinquish his attempt to squeeze the shorts any further and to force prices up to the top notch at his bidding millions of bushels of wheat were thrown into the pit armour in the opinion of most of the members of the board had a firm grip on the situa tion he had been manipulating wheat prices as he saw fit his corner was thought to be of cast steel and double riveted he had forced the price of may wheat up to 1.05v4 the high mark for years the men who were short saw vis ions of higher prices and further losses staring them in the face if they could not buy wheat to have on hand when may set tlements were called for by the king of the pit but from abroad came the brief cabled message to let go and into the pit were thrown millions of bushels of armour wheat this was done shortly after the market opened at first the move bewil dered the shorts they did not know where it came from fearful of still higher prices and seeing their chance to bny at opening figures they snapped at all that was offered then the word passed around that ar mour's corner was busted the market hroke down down down went prices from 1.05 at the opening to 1.00 at the close was the range of the price of may wheat that armour was supposed to have firmly backed up into a corner july and september wheat dropped in sympathy with may wheat the former going from oh cents to 90 cents and the latter from 87 cents to 86 cents armour not a loser in deal armour is not a loser by this latest deal he bought large quantities of may wheat months ago when prices were low he bought more last month and still more this month buyers and brokers knew that he had the market well in hand fearful of what armour might do prices under this influence began to soar armour from the european continent watched the scene iu tile Chicago pit then he decided to sell it is impossible fo any one outside of armour and his closest business associates in the grain trade to tell just how many millions of bushels of wheat he was long but every bushel of wheat that he tossed into the pit yesterday was sold at a profit armour probably'is some hundreds of thou j sands of dollars richer by this latest | flyer in may wheat some one is hundreds of thousands of i dollars poorer the some one are the shorts that were squeezed just what caused armour to let go at this stage of his big deal is a question that is puzzling many of the board of trade men perhaps say some members he â– found that he could not put his corner j through that be bad bitten olf more than ibe could successfully masticate and that i he found himself in the same position that many another man who has attempted to corner the wheat market has found uiuise'f â€” iu a corner may have feared u s others say that armour feared federal interference still others that be felt it unwise to force the coiner further at this time owing to the sentiment which has been expressed on the board against this kind of trading the anti-corner rule proposed for the Chicago board of trade was deteated yes j terday by a vote of the members the rule would in a measure have eliminated the danger of extremely high prices due to coiners under the proposed rule when a corner was foui-d to have been manipu lated a committee would have investigated conditions and then would have forced the manipulators of the corner to settle with the shorts at a price to be fixed by that committee a price equitable and just to all parties concerned the opponents of the measure designated it as a baby measure yesterday and fought hard against its adoption it was defeated by a vote of neariy two to one jbe veryfjmt that suxfa_ji_ri]lc_Â«-ag haja^i victim of policeman's error and slayer he took her for mrs herron was arrested at syracuse n t at the instigation of a traveling man who pointed her out as mrs belle gunness the laporte murderess within a few hours mrs herron proved that she is a Chicago woman and had never known mrs gunness or been in laporte she now threatens to sue the syracuse police for 50,000 for false arrest mrs belle gunness mrs cora herron uiagram illustration of the state's case against lamphere setting forth the basis of the circumstantial evi dence to prove he could have oeen at the ounness home at the time it was set afire lamphere declares he left the negro woman's house between 4:30 and sa m while the state alleges he departed about 8 a m the gunness home about two miles away was in flames at .} a m beginning at the next home half a mile distant lam phere's course during the entire morning *\? traced Chicago lawyer in 500,000 swindle man giving name as charles barry arrested as leader of note frauds new york may 11 a man who gave his name as charles barry who says he is a Chicago lawyer and who has been living in new york like a millionaire with his family in luxurious rooms at the hotel buckingham was arrested to-day by cen tral office detec'ives meconvllle and nel son as one of a band of note swiudler assistant district attorney kilenberger has been running them to earth the note swindles so far as officially known reach nearly 500,000 though it is believed that many others will yet be revealed two men are now in prison for these swindles it was through the con fession of john j campbell who is now serving a term of four years and four mouths in sing sing that attention was directed to barry who has a fine suite of offices at 35 broadway though he is said never to have been admitted to the new york bar the specific charge against barrv is that he aided in the negotiation of 108,000 in notes obtained from the cutiery firm of sherman & co in keyport n j for which that firm never received a penny having to make good these notes brought about the bankruptcy of the sherman company last july note broker john gundlacb who is al leged to liave been barry's partner in the swindle is now in the tombs awaiting trial i sherman & co in april 1007 being in i need of money to enlarge their business and cover contracts replied to an advertise ment inserted by gundlacb offering money to loan one of the firm met mr gundlnch by ap pointment at the astor house where mr barry was pointed out as a western mil lionaire when introduced mr sherman eaid barry readily agreed to discount notes to the amount of 108,00<i in twenty-lour hours or to return the notes inside of two j weeks he said he bad millionaire frieuds | who could easily accommodate biui after a few days sherman & co wrote to gundlacu demanding the money a draft for 1,400 on a new york real estate man was sent to the firm but when dis counted it was returned marked x g i the cutlery firm had to make this draft and a nuuiber of checks good at its bank the return of the notes was refused and when they were discounted by the swin dlers the sherman company was thrown into bankruptcy the assistant district attorney states that when the sherman note's weie mentioned barry waved the matter aside by saying it could be explained he said he was worth a round million and that he had large holdings of unimproved coal lands in west virginia and pennsylvania when the barry apartment in the brunswick was called on the telephone to night mrs barry sent her maid to say that she was too 111 to talk she said her bus baud was out of town for a few days some of the firms who have been swin dled are salem nail company i0,000 f w el bers house & co yj-t sixth avenue 3,300 the blue ltldge enamel brick co of newark x j 30,000 the russel card & l'aper co of mil!towi j il,ooo^ajjuÂ£d^locum co p.Â»^mfcniiia mark twain tells mr dooley a new one new york may 11 mark twain and peter finley dnane anthor of mr doo ley dined together at the waldorf-as toria to-night after the dinner they strolled about tlie hotel mr clemens at tracted much attention and dunne noting this exclaimed i know it must be very embarrassing for you to be in the company of a man who is attracting so much attention i am willing to go if you wish it is embarrassing replied clemens i haven't been so embarrassed since yes terday wa^'ng up fifth avenue after the police parade a young woman hand somely gowned stepped up and told me how much she had longed to speak to me and how glad she was to find me alone that she might shake my hand " who do you think i am i asked as soon as she stopped long enough to let me speak " why buffalo bill of course haven't i watched you ride about madison square garden every year since i don't know when of course i know you and never never will i forget you " hetty green menaced in black hand letter missive demands 5,000 from richest woman new york may 11 although etforts have been made to keep the matter secret it became known to-night that mrs hetty green who is living in the hotel plaza received last friday a letter signed black hand threatening her with all kinds of trouble unless she gave 5,000 to leaving the hotel for her office has been accompanied by detectives the letter was written in ink and the letters were formed like print rather than ordinary writing officially at the hotel to-night there was a disinclination to dis cuss the black hand letter the letter ad vised mrs green to pay the money to a i messenger who would call to see her and i that she would be wise if she maintained j secrecy prairie fire costs west cainada millions homesteaders fleeing for their lives many forests destroyed edmonton alberta may 11.â€”contrac tor tomkins of the grand trunk pacific hallway has arrived here from the right of way of the railroad and tells of the worst prairie and bush fire in the history of western canada hundreds of square utiles of valuable timber have been devastated at a loss of several million dollars homesteaders liv ing in the path of the lire have lost all their possessions and are now fleeing for their lives for two days and two nights men em loj .^^^^^^^^^^^ o ; . identify hair found in gunness victim's hand as lamphere three strands in the rope of evidence about lampherel iâ€”hicroscopist1 â€” hicroscopist says hair clutch in helgeleiirs dead ii*n is that of lamphere . j 2 â€” lewis routi will testify to hearing the accused say itokoj mrs gunness keeps this up much longer i will tell somej thing that will hang her that quick 3 two witnesses will testify to seeing jos gum ness and lamphere carry a bulky object to the yard and bury it state promises to prove^pilsÃŸ oner helped woman fl kill helgelein surgical knives - fpu j spring dirk also taken frori ruins with 23 pairs of 1 scissors k captive's stepaj seventeen ts witnesse^^ib port charge that ex-erÃŸ ploye fired dwelling v laporte intf may 11 covtntj prosecutor ralph n smith obh tained to/jaj what toe believesm is positive evidence that ray lamjh phere now under arrest charged witth burning to death mrs belle gunnessh and her three children toad a part irfl the killing of andrew helgelein chief anion the exhibits that hefl will present to the granoi juiy n;xh week is the lock of hair that wasj found in helgelein's fiand when hl^j body was exhumed in the gunness i yard 9 this bit of hair put lander a i microscope side by side with some c^fl lamphere's hair which toad been cufl from the prisoner's head toy sherim smutzer they were founastoumnths same in color and texture fl both were medium brown and-cur v the Chicago expert who made thatesjfl was positive that the two samples fl hair were from the head of theasanrh person looks dark'for lamphere to-night the prosecution-hasvuegun to prepare its case against lamphere for presentation to the grand l jury depositions containing important new proof were made at a conference of the prosecution by sheriff smutzer and deputy sheriffs antiss and roy marr others present at the meeting were prosecutor smith and & j smith a private detective the result of the hair test is regarded\ajl completing a chain of circumstances terh ing to prove that lamphere assisted in a murder of helgelein it also indicates thl^^l the north dakota victim was not killed without a struggle other proof in the i hands of the prosecution according to one 1 of the men present at the conference j tends to show conclusively that lamphere m dug the grave of helgelein and helped bury i the body i two witnesses have made affidavit that ( they saw lamphere and mrs gunness bury i a l>ody the night hilgelein disappeared m it is these facts backed by the testimony i of witnesses who saw lamphere near the i scene of the bre that give prosecutor â– i smith bis spirit of confidence that lain jfl phere will be shown to have assisted mr^^h gunness in the murder say a!ibi is disproved jfl the theory that mrs guuness was klllch by lamphere is strengthened according t^m the men present at the conference by th b fact that lamphere had plenty of time m walk from the house of the negress lizzi^^f smith to the gunness home kill the i"h mates set are to the house and then b^h found in the plaees in which he was s at the boor mentioned by the wiiuescÃŸ while the tire was in progress ar detectives have gone over lainphdl supposed coxo^mff carefully ami rep;<m i.^k|^!m thai lirÃŸ plcim i .'..,-â€¢ 1 "-' crime chjh . . board will fix cost of city light council decides to settle-con troversy as to whether it loses or profits mayor busse was authorized last night to employ experts to determine the cost to the city of providing its own power for street lighting the city council unani mously adopted an order introduced by alderman bennett directing the mayor to make the inquiry the order specifies that the experts are to acquire information on the cost of city electric lighting plants the present value of the plants and what it costs the mu nicipality to light the streets the mayor probably will came a com mittee of five with city electrician car roll and drainage engineer ellicott as members to gather the information de sired mayor's advisers differ two weeks ago mayor busse called for a report from the city electrician on the cost of street lighting city electrician carroll who is a busse appointee reported that it cost the city tf annually for each light which the commonwealth edison company could furnish for 75 engineer ellicott of the drainage board took issue with carroll and made an esti mate showing that it cost the city about 53 per light a year the conflicting re ports were laid before the mayor he asked for the appointment of an investi gating committee get report on sand the council also received the report of the special aldermanic commission ap pointed to inquire into the relative values of sand and limestone screenings as con crete ingredients the inquiry was pre cipitated by vice president minwegen of the board of local improvements who held that sand was superior to screenings i before the committee minwegen was ac cused of furthering the interests of the sand trust of Chicago and indiana the report of the committee was unanimously in favor of limestone and it was support ed by a report of the united states board of engineers which said that tests of on three and five years showed that lime stone produced a far better concrete than saud the report is unanimously adopt ed by the council wants car line adopted alderman scully iresented in ordinance directing either th Chicago hallways com pany or the chici.'o ity hallway com pany to take over be roa<l of the south era streei rallro.-d company formerly known as fgj^geaera 1 electric l - â€” - â– * mm wfil Chicago and vicinity part firtf r\jo ly cloudy tuesday and wednesday Â£-^ v j with probably showers and thun ikf lift derstorms mild temperature varia jm 1 ni ble winds lo a pressing engagement \ one you cannot afford to miss ( f v if looking for a position call i to-day and advertise your k abilities in chicago's most widely circulated newspaper k which entitles vou to the jl i l free services of the exchange ifsa others have been successful in finding {â– ".Â£.â– -' fis lo'f articles through the lost and si i ** found column of the examiner you vl - will too if 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Chicago examiner vol vi no 122 a m tuesday may 12 1908 12 pages price one cent d^ga o^j hlae quits allies makes nomination of Taft appear to be certain maine senator induced by aldrich and crane to de sert the opposition no change for stampede fear of roosevelt's selection drives leaders into camp of ohio man washington may 11 the allied op position to secretary Taft is on the verge of collapse for some time senators aldrich and hale have been in the Taft camp recently they have been working hard to get sen ator w murray crane field marshal of the allies to join them it is reported to-night that senator crane has met these over tures in a manner which leads to the belief that he eventually will come over the combination in that event will mean the solid vote of new england for Taft on the first ballot and end the possibility for fur ther question as to the secretary's nomina the senators have been shaken up by the recent talk of a stampede for hoose velt there probably is only one repub lican in the country for whom they would not rather vote than Taft and that is roosevelt the lingering possibility that , the convenuon might be stampeded for the ; 1 president has convinced the senators that a their best move is to insure the nomina tion of Taft on the first ballot this possibility has been emphasized for them in the last few days by resolutions adopted at the utah convention for the election of delegates to Chicago and by the result of primaries in california the Taft strength in new engladd has been growing steadily and has been well recognized by senators from those states who have con | tinued their opposition when senator k crane decides to vote for Taft that means r all opposition in new england will cease and that Taft will have the solid eighty two votes from those states all prefer Taft to roosevelt in the entire group of dominant sena tors whom the president has classified as reactionaries there is not one who per sonally or politically prefers Taft to knox cannon or fairbanks but every one of tlem prefers Taft to roosevelt for weeks there have been reports that aldrich even tually would swing to Taft the rhode island delegation is nninstructcd and will be absolutely subservient to the wishes of aldrich the conversion of hale was a tedious process but it became apparent that maine would send a Taft delegation to Chicago his colleague senator fry was openly for Taft but it was not until the paners began to tell of the preference ex prewed for roosevelt in texas utah and california that aldrich and hale took off their coats for three days nobody in washington not even excepting hitch cock who works fourteen hours a day and can always lie found on duty at midnight has been bo active in behalf of Taft as aid rich and hale a stampede to roosevelt apparently was threatened and they began to organize to prevent it the president knew of their efforts and he secretly applauded their activity iu the president knew of their efforts and bis behalf is what he had hoped for and indeed planned for the president is in tensely practical as he himself admits he did not care what influences caused the reactionaries to get behind Taft just so they helped to give him the nomination he doesn't care how a stampede is pre vented just so it is prevented no chance of roosevelt stampede , under the circumstances a stampede â– > . v inch will nominate roosevelt now is out of she question it is apparent that for every vote which leaves Taft for roose velt two will leave the allies for Taft Taft will have more than 400 sure votes it is claimed which are his by binding in structions should a stampede be attempt ed there are enough votes controlled by the crnue-aldrieh-hale group to throw to Taft and make his nomination on the first ballot certain senator knox it is said does not snb m scribe to the idea that taft's nomination j is inevitable he still entertains the hope of himself being the nominee speaker cannon is holding out but rather than see roosevelt nominated he would throw the vote of the Illinois delegation to Taft for if there is one person in the wide world whom uncle joe does not want in the presidential chair it is theodore roosevelt from all sides in the camp of the allies to-night came denials of reports that sen ator crane had joined the new combination with aldrich hale and allison crane himself said there was no foundation for the story and representatives of knox and cannon made similar denials indications are however that the publi cation of the report is a little premature for the crane camp soul mate views oust professor when his wife finds poem to affinity h h bawden holding chair of philos ophy in university of cincin nati is asked to resign cincinnati 0 may 11 h heath bawden professor of philosophy at the university of cincinnati has been asked to tender bis resignation by president charles w dabney the demand was based npon the private views held by the instructor on the problem of sex and mar riage v professor bawden came to cincinnati year ago from vassar where he had been a member of the faculty for six years he admits that his radical views on mar riage and his democratic problems caused him to be dismissed from vassar professor bawden says that he believes in an ideal state in which there will exist an association based on comradeship in stead of the marriage tie professor bawden declares that he is going to fight the demand for his resigna tion and will submit his case in detail to the american public about two years ago a cloud appeared on the horizon of the bawden family on the horizon of tiie brawden family when an attractive young woman was en gaged as second assistant to professor bawden in his university work at vas sar mrs bawden found in a newspaper basket an original poem which she de clares was afterward admitted to be the work of her husband and in which a calm dispassionate love for the fair second assistant instructor iu philosophy was ex pressed by the writer recently mrs bawden went to dr dab ney the head of the university after a se ries of stormy interviews with her husband and laid the case before dr dabney professor and mrs bawden have apart ments in the auburn hotel on malvern place mount auburn but mrs bawden's rooms are in the main building while those of the professor are in the annex alice longworth places tack for man to sit on stout victim finds point enlivening dull session of congress washington d c may 11 mrs nicholas longworth who was alice roose velt drove her husband to the capitol to day in her electric runabout then she went up in the members gallery and sat down the proceedings on the floor were dull mrs longworth was plainly bored suddenly her eye lighted upon a tack upon the floor she picked it up and regarded it meditatively then as a smile spread over her face she leaned over the rail toward the men's gallery and carefully deposited it on a chair a few moments later a stout elderly man came in and seated himself ponderously upon the tack he rose like one of pain's best sky-rockets mrs longworth left the gallery almost im mediately and all the way down penn sylvania avenue it was noticed that her face wore a broad grin mayor arrested on charge of swearing albion mich executive out of jail on 100 bond battle creek mich may 11 mayor d m mcauliff of albion mich was ar rested charged with using profane lan guage in the presence of women and children in this city the mayor was ar raigned in justice court and is out of jail on a bond of 100 the date of his trial has been set for may 28 the mayor's trouble began when he boarded an inter urban car earring a byuggy wheel when the conductor tried to collect freight on the wheel an argument followed in which mc auliff was not careful in his use of words when he reached battle creek he was taken into custody hold as burglar a flirt traced by rare perfume popular stranger's gifts to women lead to his arrest madison wis may 11 - joseph holmes a stranger of a week's residence here who has become popular with several women has been arrested charged with robbing a drug store his arrest resulted from bis lavishing perfume upon the women with whom he flirted it was found that the free perfume was of the same peculiar scent as that of a big bottle stolen from the drug store the proprietor declares this odor is not duplicated in this state and is available not nearer than chi cago and minneapolis holmes denies his guilt but will not say where he got the supply of scent from which he gave so freely the examiner employment exchange places more applicants than any other medium in the city call and file your application to-day â€¢ armour in europe deluges Chicago pit with wheat weakens his may corner and sends price down to 1,00 3-4 fears federal action exact reason for message from abroad to let go is only surmised j ogden armour's corner in may wheat on the Chicago board of trade is weakened armour yesterday decided to let go to relinquish his attempt to squeeze the shorts any further and to force prices up to the top notch at his bidding millions of bushels of wheat were thrown into the pit armour in the opinion of most of the members of the board had a firm grip on the situa tion he had been manipulating wheat prices as he saw fit his corner was thought to be of cast steel and double riveted he had forced the price of may wheat up to 1.05v4 the high mark for years the men who were short saw vis ions of higher prices and further losses staring them in the face if they could not buy wheat to have on hand when may set tlements were called for by the king of the pit but from abroad came the brief cabled message to let go and into the pit were thrown millions of bushels of armour wheat this was done shortly after the market opened at first the move bewil dered the shorts they did not know where it came from fearful of still higher prices and seeing their chance to bny at opening figures they snapped at all that was offered then the word passed around that ar mour's corner was busted the market hroke down down down went prices from 1.05 at the opening to 1.00 at the close was the range of the price of may wheat that armour was supposed to have firmly backed up into a corner july and september wheat dropped in sympathy with may wheat the former going from oh cents to 90 cents and the latter from 87 cents to 86 cents armour not a loser in deal armour is not a loser by this latest deal he bought large quantities of may wheat months ago when prices were low he bought more last month and still more this month buyers and brokers knew that he had the market well in hand fearful of what armour might do prices under this influence began to soar armour from the european continent watched the scene iu tile Chicago pit then he decided to sell it is impossible fo any one outside of armour and his closest business associates in the grain trade to tell just how many millions of bushels of wheat he was long but every bushel of wheat that he tossed into the pit yesterday was sold at a profit armour probably'is some hundreds of thou j sands of dollars richer by this latest | flyer in may wheat some one is hundreds of thousands of i dollars poorer the some one are the shorts that were squeezed just what caused armour to let go at this stage of his big deal is a question that is puzzling many of the board of trade men perhaps say some members he â– found that he could not put his corner j through that be bad bitten olf more than ibe could successfully masticate and that i he found himself in the same position that many another man who has attempted to corner the wheat market has found uiuise'f â€” iu a corner may have feared u s others say that armour feared federal interference still others that be felt it unwise to force the coiner further at this time owing to the sentiment which has been expressed on the board against this kind of trading the anti-corner rule proposed for the Chicago board of trade was deteated yes j terday by a vote of the members the rule would in a measure have eliminated the danger of extremely high prices due to coiners under the proposed rule when a corner was foui-d to have been manipu lated a committee would have investigated conditions and then would have forced the manipulators of the corner to settle with the shorts at a price to be fixed by that committee a price equitable and just to all parties concerned the opponents of the measure designated it as a baby measure yesterday and fought hard against its adoption it was defeated by a vote of neariy two to one jbe veryfjmt that suxfa_ji_ri]lc_Â«-ag haja^i victim of policeman's error and slayer he took her for mrs herron was arrested at syracuse n t at the instigation of a traveling man who pointed her out as mrs belle gunness the laporte murderess within a few hours mrs herron proved that she is a Chicago woman and had never known mrs gunness or been in laporte she now threatens to sue the syracuse police for 50,000 for false arrest mrs belle gunness mrs cora herron uiagram illustration of the state's case against lamphere setting forth the basis of the circumstantial evi dence to prove he could have oeen at the ounness home at the time it was set afire lamphere declares he left the negro woman's house between 4:30 and sa m while the state alleges he departed about 8 a m the gunness home about two miles away was in flames at .} a m beginning at the next home half a mile distant lam phere's course during the entire morning *\? traced Chicago lawyer in 500,000 swindle man giving name as charles barry arrested as leader of note frauds new york may 11 a man who gave his name as charles barry who says he is a Chicago lawyer and who has been living in new york like a millionaire with his family in luxurious rooms at the hotel buckingham was arrested to-day by cen tral office detec'ives meconvllle and nel son as one of a band of note swiudler assistant district attorney kilenberger has been running them to earth the note swindles so far as officially known reach nearly 500,000 though it is believed that many others will yet be revealed two men are now in prison for these swindles it was through the con fession of john j campbell who is now serving a term of four years and four mouths in sing sing that attention was directed to barry who has a fine suite of offices at 35 broadway though he is said never to have been admitted to the new york bar the specific charge against barrv is that he aided in the negotiation of 108,000 in notes obtained from the cutiery firm of sherman & co in keyport n j for which that firm never received a penny having to make good these notes brought about the bankruptcy of the sherman company last july note broker john gundlacb who is al leged to liave been barry's partner in the swindle is now in the tombs awaiting trial i sherman & co in april 1007 being in i need of money to enlarge their business and cover contracts replied to an advertise ment inserted by gundlacb offering money to loan one of the firm met mr gundlnch by ap pointment at the astor house where mr barry was pointed out as a western mil lionaire when introduced mr sherman eaid barry readily agreed to discount notes to the amount of 108,00ody the night hilgelein disappeared m it is these facts backed by the testimony i of witnesses who saw lamphere near the i scene of the bre that give prosecutor â– i smith bis spirit of confidence that lain jfl phere will be shown to have assisted mr^^h gunness in the murder say a!ibi is disproved jfl the theory that mrs guuness was klllch by lamphere is strengthened according t^m the men present at the conference by th b fact that lamphere had plenty of time m walk from the house of the negress lizzi^^f smith to the gunness home kill the i"h mates set are to the house and then b^h found in the plaees in which he was s at the boor mentioned by the wiiuescÃŸ while the tire was in progress ar detectives have gone over lainphdl supposed coxo^mff carefully ami rep;